From the AP:
The El Paso police chief said Sunday that a racist, anti-immigrant screed posted online shortly before the shooting has been linked to the man arrested in the attack on the border city. The writer expresses concern that an influx of Hispanics into the United States will replace aging white voters, potentially turning Texas blue in upcoming elections and swinging the White House to the Democrats. Federal prosecutors say they're treating the shooting as a domestic terrorism case.
Trump's language about immigrants, and his hardline policies, loomed over the El Paso shooting.
He has described groups of immigrants as "infestations," declared in his campaign kickoff that many of those coming from Mexico were "rapists,"deemed a caravan of Hispanic migrants as invaders and wondered why the United States accepted so many immigrants from "s---hole countries" like Haiti, El Salvador and African nations. Critics also point to his campaign proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, his suggestion that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and his administration's efforts to curtail asylum and separate immigrant children from their parents at the border.
...and:
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney defended Trump against arguments that his rhetoric has stoked violence, saying “no politician is to blame” for mass shootings like the one in El Paso.
“The person who was responsible here are the people who pulled the trigger,” Mulvaney said Sunday during an interview on ABC’s “This Week.” “We need to figure out how to ... create less of those kinds of people as a society [instead of] trying to figure out who gets blamed going into the next election.”
.” “We need to figure out how to ... create less of those kinds of people "
How about the originator of the divisive rhetoric shutting up?
The El Paso police chief said Sunday that a racist, anti-immigrant screed posted online shortly before the shooting has been linked to the man arrested in the attack on the border city. The writer expresses concern that an influx of Hispanics into the United States will replace aging white voters, potentially turning Texas blue in upcoming elections and swinging the White House to the Democrats. Federal prosecutors say they're treating the shooting as a domestic terrorism case.
Trump's language about immigrants, and his hardline policies, loomed over the El Paso shooting.
He has described groups of immigrants as "infestations," declared in his campaign kickoff that many of those coming from Mexico were "rapists,"deemed a caravan of Hispanic migrants as invaders and wondered why the United States accepted so many immigrants from "s---hole countries" like Haiti, El Salvador and African nations. Critics also point to his campaign proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, his suggestion that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and his administration's efforts to curtail asylum and separate immigrant children from their parents at the border.
...and:
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney defended Trump against arguments that his rhetoric has stoked violence, saying “no politician is to blame” for mass shootings like the one in El Paso.
“The person who was responsible here are the people who pulled the trigger,” Mulvaney said Sunday during an interview on ABC’s “This Week.” “We need to figure out how to ... create less of those kinds of people as a society [instead of] trying to figure out who gets blamed going into the next election.”
.” “We need to figure out how to ... create less of those kinds of people "
How about the originator of the divisive rhetoric shutting up?
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